The overarching problem is that in the almost three decades since the
fall of state socialism, Georgian political elites are still stuck in
this rudimentary post-socialist condition, in which fundamental critique
of political and economic order remains impossible; social and economic
inequalities remain depoliticized; markets are still the favored
solutions; ideas that nourish the elites and institutions come from
international financial institutions, international organizations, or
elsewhere; and most importantly, as in many post-socialist states, the
fundamental question of why everything had to be privatized has not been
addressed. On the other hand, the post-socialist-style, professionalized
civil society organizations continue to provide their limited and
ethically bounded conceptions of what democracy is, what civil society
is, and what collective action can be. All this has significantly
impeded the process of building wider solidarity structures or
relationships that would make wider collective action possible.
full:
http://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/georgias-last-popular-presidential-elections-interview-with-nino-khelaia/